My Need for Coffee in the Morning

I totally admit it…until I have my coffee in the morning, I cannot exist in this world.

Not only do I love the taste of coffee, but I also love the feeling of caffeine flowing through my veins…like a stream of happy consciousness.

Coffee makes everything look so much better.

It also allows me to deal with all the shit-heels in this city, in a much more calm manner.

(It’s such a lovely legal drug)

Coffee for me, is like a gift from the gods.

It’s right up there with dark chocolate or a nice glass of red wine.

Now please understand, I don’t drink coffee all day - I have only two cups.

(two extremely LARGE cups)

I guess you could call them a venti-extreme.

I went through a faze of trying to switch to tea. I tried green-tea, black-tea, orange -tea, purple-tea, and red-tea.

PAALEEESE!…..I HATED THEM!

(it was like desiring an apple...and then getting brussel sprouts)

I remember about 4 years ago, when I went on a 7-day retreat at an Ayurvedic Institute. They had absolutely NO caffeine on the premises, because they frowned upon it. So if you wanted real coffee, you had to bring your own instant. I remember the first time I went to the cafeteria to have breakfast with the other inmates. As soon as I took out the jar of Maxwell House from my bag…everyone at the table GASPED and jumped like they had just seen a python snake.

That’s because they were all sipping their Valerian Root Tea and looking like they were in a constant state of COMA.

(need I tell you how UNpopular I was there?)

Now I do enjoy a nice cup of chamomile tea sometimes before bedtime, but as far as drinking something to “jump-start” my body in the morning…coffee RULES.

I was thinking of purchasing an IV drip machine - like the ones they use in the hospital. And then having a timer installed on it, so that it would slowing start dripping coffee into my blood stream before I woke up.

OH Ron, I LOVE the sign at the end of your post.... so freaking vintage and snarky!! I have a few of that type saved for eventual posting. My avatar, and the one on the side bar about being bitchy.... so ME! LOL

Do I seriously have to leave your blog?? I'd cry.I'll start drinking coffee if I have to!!! Pleeeeaaassseee let me stay!!

I love the smell of coffee. And with cream and sugar, some I even like the taste of. But I have to watch the stimulants with the whacked out hormones that I have. So because I luv, luv, luv me some chocolate I use that as my caffeine fix. Or chai tea. Or wine. So coffee unfortunately loses to those 3. Infact, as I sit here typing I'm having a skinny dark cocoa.... haven't been to Starbucks for a couple days so had to improvise in the kitchen.

Because Hubby drinks his first cup or two of regular in the morning, and likes a couple beers sometimes with dinner, he's into decaf the rest of the time too. And oops, yes, sometimes we drink tea. We like chamomile, peppermint, and some others. Actually, I need to look into the one you mentioned... Valerian Root... I have been having a terrible time sleeping for various reasons and think that might be helpful!

So I have not left the blog world afterall. Ah, I so need my 'Vent' fix, and some others. And what would I do with the cherry pictures in my camera if I can't post them, or the short vid of Alex taking a few wobbly steps. I hope I can get that one to upload! Have a marvelous week!

Like I shared, I do enjoy teas...just not as a WAKE-UP tool. I need something stronger. Although, I know that tea supposedly has more caffeine than coffee. It's the WHOLE ritual of coffee that I love. And I love the taste.

My god...it's like MANA from the heavens!

Hey listen, you may want to try some Valerian Root tea if your having trouble sleeping. Now I will warn you...it smells HORRIBLE, but you can get it in a blend (Yogi tea) and the other added teas soften the taste. But I'll tell you something...IT WORKS!

LA, LA LAND!

So GREAT to see that you haven't left the blog world! Sometimes just a good VENT does the trick, ya know?

Hey Ron. I can relate, vicariously. My husband crawls out of bed every morning looking like death, and says to me, "Coffee," which means in human speak, "can you please make me some coffee?" I used to be a coffee freak too. Do you have Sheetz stores in Philly? Well every morning on my way to work, I would get coffee at Sheetz. But after 12 years of working the breakfast shift, brewing coffee, smelling coffee, pouring coffee, listening to people bark for coffee, I think that I kind of got sick of it. I use to come home with coffee grounds in my pockets, and coffee splotches all over my clothes. Urgh....I don't really drink it anymore unless it is really cold outside. But I have never been able to shake my caffiene addiction. I love my caffiene.....gotta have my caffiene first thing.

I drink my coffee straight, and I don't like it weak or warm..has to be very strong and hot, hot!

Hey guess what..it must be good for us, because that is all my Grandmother drinks! For those that may see this and not know about her she just turned 101. I swear she drinks it from morning 'til she goes to bed! I've never seen her drink water!

So between the excessive salt and coffee she may have the real secret to living forever. eh,eh,eh

My entire family on that side has a coffee pot going pretty much 24/7 Plenty of night owls among them! Hmmm, I never thought about it before, but maybe it's due to all the coffee...duh! :O

When we were little she allowed us to have coffee..well, actually milk with just a spot of coffee in it. I can remember feeling so grown up drinking coffee in a real coffee cup...hanging out with the adults!

I am like you I usually have two cups..though once in a while I will have one in the afternoon for a little "zip"

I could use some now! I woke up at 3 this morning and it is 1:37 in the afternoon now, and I AM WILTING!

Ya know...the more I hear about your wondeful grandmother...the more I want to meet her!

God...she sounds like such a COOL lady!!!

Me too...I like my coffee STRONG with just a touch of half and half.

Your memory of being a child and being given coffee, made me remember my childhood too. You're SO RIGHT...having coffee made me feel SOOO grown up. And what's really funny, is that I really didn't drink coffee regularly, until I was in my mid-twenties. And I used Sweet and Low (gag me!).

Eventually I used less and less, until I used none.

Like you...I have only two cups. One in the morning and one around 3 or 4 in the afternoon.

When I look back at all my ancestors (Italian)....they ALL drank coffee, drank wine, and ate whatever the hell they wanted...and they lived LONG, HAPPY lives.

Ron baby...see that's why I love you. We are so brewed from the same coffee beans.

Coffee is one thing I've learned to cherish. I can remember my firts cup of Joe. It was all I thought I would need. I was up writing a paper for U.S. history class. Yes I procratinated till it was due the very next day. I was US history, what could be so F'ing hard and I was a whiz at History. Why I had slept through my softmore history class and aced without cheating. I was one very bored child and had become a denizen of the local library to just read. History/mythology were a few of my interest.

You ask...is this going anywhere Spiky? No...I was bored and just wanted to chat with you a bit.

hehehe...actually yes...Mother made me coffee at about midnight to keep me awake...the paper was due and I had to reserch more seeing I had lost my notes! It was taking longer than I thought. Anyway I can say coffee saved my ass...kinda. Yeah, I got a B+ but hey, not bad for winging most of it. Coffee would come back to me in college two years later...just the thought of it gets me teary eyed.

I don't think I ever got a B+ in anything! I was a straight C and D student. Honestly! I was NOT a good student. I got through school by the skin of my teeth. I was street smart...but not book smart. I learn best when I teach myself.

See...you and I are both air signs. It's hard to focus if someone is teaching us something and they're not making it interesting. We need GLAMOUR and PIZZAZ!